Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1887-03-19
G. A. R. ball April IL.
Read Abrams new nd, II means business,

q nne soda fountain In their Qru2 store, IL
Is a daisy, sure.
The fast mail and other trains passed
through bv Lexington, Yesterday morning.
because of the burning of a trestle work on
the main line.
G. G. Parker, Dramatic reader? C. C.
Parker dramatic reader! At W. Nj. A. hall
next Friday night. Admission rs cents. Re-
served seats s. cents.
Persons aggrieved by their assessments
will do well to read the notice of the county
board of equalization; next week. County
court the following week.
Another important sale of real estate took
place this week. Mr.. VIM. Il. Smith having
story brick building on franklin avenue, for
the sum of S2.45O.
Sedalia now gets the st. Louis papers at 8
O'Clock. a. m. Why can't we get the benefit
Of the fast mail over our line: We want all
the advantages of the times. Look after it,
Mr.. Hyde, please.
We have it directly and reliably that Mr..
Mclaughlin, chief engineer of the Missouri
Pacific railway. has positive orders to COM
plete the extension, from Marshall to Lexing-
ton, BY September next.
Marshall Progress:--"Mr. James Scott, e
contractor, who was here Wednesday, from
Lexington. said that he had the contract for
building the Missouri Pacific extension from
Lexington to Waverly."
Boonville Star. March 13:-Wm. Bsgnell,
chief contractor for the Missouri Pacific work
west Of here, left Friday evening for south
east Missouri. He will return tomorrow
and prosecute the work vigorously.
On the roll of honor In the Dover school
last month were the followlng:-Josephine
Hodges, Dors Haggard, Nora Cobb, Hugh
VIM, Nettie Lewis, Louis Wahl. Laura
Ray, Albert HARDWOOD, Charlie VIM and
Willie Hollinsworth.
Jefferson City, Mo-, March 1.-THE Mis-
souri, Pacific surveying corps are in six miles
of this city now, on the Missouri river branch
Of the Missouri Pacific. They will conclude
the survey during the week and work will
be commenced immediately.
Mr.. NJ. G. Jacobs, formerly of this county,
sold, Tuesday, 30 acres of land, near indie
pendence. at $1,000 per acre, or Sl04 900.
He has 10 acres of the tract left. He paid
Sis, 900 for all OF 1t, shortly after he left
Napoleon. he made a lucky exchange.
The "used to be" familiar sight of q load
of hemp, drawn by a team Of four mules,
with a negro on the nigh" wheeler. driving
the ''lead" team with a single line, was seen
upon our streets last Monday. We hope to
see more of the same kind in the future.
There will be more real estate IN AM
around Lexington change hands in the next
sixty days than the most sanguine real estate
agents can expect, let alone the citizens who
now own the property. Put your property
in the hands of our various agents and give
them a show to spread themselves.
A corps of engineers, headed by Mr.. H. B.
Wright, spent last Sunday IN Lexington. At
ter thoroughly examining the bluffs to find
an easier descent to the river, the corps
vey of the old L.. L. & g.. road-bed. Though
they were very reticent it is generally under.
stood that the corps was working for the
Psola company.
1t is safe to say that the value of real estate
has ad, anced, in Lexington, during the past
six weeks, at least fifty per cent. I've know
of a great deal of property that has increased
vastly more than this. For instance, two
houses that were offered together not long
since at $500. are now held at ia. 500, and
$500 was offered for them a day or tw Q
ago and refused.
Rocheport Commercial :-''The engineers
engaged in making the survey for the Nilsson.
ri Pacific branch road, passed down south of
Overton on Tuesday. They are following
the river bluffs clear through and are making
final location. Stakes were driven for the
depot grounds on the land OF VIM. Clay ton,
half a mile south of Overton The
people of that prosperous little village
are very enthusiastic over the certainty of q
railroad town."
Odessa Democrat Ezra Greer, a boy Of
Il years of age, was kicked by a horse at Mr.
j. W. Renick's on last Saturday. The boy
in attempting 10 mount the horse. the saddle
turned and threw him to the ground. He
was kicked in the mouth and all his front
upper teeth and q part of his Jaw teeth
knocked out and a part of the palate of his
mouth detached, which the doctor removed
from his throat. He is in a fair way of re.
covery."
The Karg gas-well was discovered in Find
lay, Ohio, about fifty miles south of Toledo
on January 20, 1886. The gas was conducted
forty eight feet above The ground, through
six-inch iron pipe, and when lighted the
flames rose from twenty to thirty feet abov,
the pipe. 1t is difficult to exaggerste thu
| me nniAoouf on1 ;,p-,.s;ro 1 A..
burning well at night. The noise of thu
escaping gas Is like the roar of Niagara. TIT
whole town Is brightly Illuminated by thu
light of the fame.
Post:-An accident occurred several day!
ago. on the farm OF Mr.. q, Meinershagen
aorth of town, that could have resulted very
seriously. Mrs, Neinersnagen was cooking
soap out In the yard, or something of thu
kind, 80 we are Informed, when the dress o
Mrs. MS daughter, who was standing near
caught fire, and but ioT the timely arrival o
the mother. the child would have persisted
In the flames; as it is she received only Sigh
injury. Through extinguishing the flames
Mrs. NJ. Lad both her hands burned pretty
badl y.
On last Tuesday night a colored bop about
fourteen years of age was seen to put a sad.
Ole IN the basement OF the old Crump house,
bY Mr.. Jacob Appel. who at once went and
Informed Mr.. Howard Williams. The two
returned to the place to find the saddle gone
The next morning Mrs. Appel saw the same
boy remove the saddle from an clubhouse Of
DR.. Adams frame house, adjoining, and pu,
it back again. She went over as quickly q.
possible, and the boy seeing that he was
watched dropped the saddle and ran away
The saddle is in Mr.. Appeps possession, and
the owner can obtain it by describing it.
Lively, yes sir. With A. T,& Santa Fe
surveying parties running a line to LexIng.
tons a surveying party at work all this week
in and near Lexington on the old Gulf road
between here and Odessa; Mr.. Gould's engi
neers ut work east of the city down the river;
st. Joseph N Lexington preparing to run to
the river. Mr.. 3. r.. Ireland has sold his fine
suburban place; R. NJ. Sparks farm is sold
Mr. Halls residence on South street; Mrs.
Stapp's on Franklin avenue; Mrs. Wilson's
suburban place; Mr., Smiths business house
on Franklin avenue; DIR. tulkerson's resi-
dence. Messrs. Harrison, Bolton, Moore
mead and Cobb all have bought lots to build
on as soon as possible. We know of q round
dozen now looking about who will buy resi-,
dences as quickly IS they can be suited. Many
others have an eye to business houses. Mr..
VIM. Morrison was offered s., 900 for 4
vacant lot adjoining j. D. Davis i Son.
Lively! Why not Put it In your pipe and
smoke IL.
HigginsViile Mrs. Jldgs Harrison and